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Hello everyone!

Hope you all had safe, happy Holidays and you sneaked in some shooting/hunting during the winter.  
Once again spring is right around the corner and all our shooting disciplines are preparing for another great season for 2009!  Our 2008 ended with NPCCC hosting 58 handgun, shotgun and rifle matches. If you haven’t had the opportunity to get involved in IDPA, Trap, Cowboy Action, Steel Plate and/or USPSA competition, you really ought to give them a try. Each one of these shooting sports will not only enhance your shooting skills, but will strengthen your safety, gun handing and defensive skills. Not to mention just learning to become completely familiar with the guns you own/carry and use for self defense.  It doesn’t matter if you are new to competition or just want to try a different shooting discipline. Come out to watch a match or better yet, give the guys a hand to set one up and meet the friendly, hardworking shooters that make all of our events happen. If you can’t help set up a match, you can always participate as a safety officer, record times and scores, organize or generally just help out in any way. Come out and support your club by participating in the shooting competitions and activities we sponsor.
The next time you attend one of the NPCCC competitions/events, Cowboy Action, Trap, IDPA, Steel, Picnic, Work party, Highway cleanup, 4H, etc., take the time to thank the people that made it possible. Without their tireless effort, we all would be just shooting into a paper target in front of a dirt hill. We all owe a great deal of thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make our monthly and specialty events happen. Our president, Jim Coons and Jeff Stack continue  their tireless and never ending effort to provide assistance to all our local Police Departments with training and qualification at the NPCCC range.

 Don't forget the monthly meetings that are held the 2^nd Tuesday of each month (Feb 10^th, *March 10^th, April 14^th, May12^th, June 9^th), at 7pm, at the NPCCC clubhouse. (Location for the Feb and March meetings will be at the Valparaiso Police Dept at 955 South Washington Street, in Valparaiso).
One of our most important events at our March 10^th meeting will be the election of club officers.
Do your part, step up and take one of these positions and make a difference in your club. Come and support your candidate(s) for they are/will be the leadership of the club.  As a large portion of this meeting is devoted to the election, we are making every effort to expedite the process.  It is imperative to know how many candidates are running for office in order to allow enough time for them to address the membership and take questions.
We ask that those nominations for prospective candidates be submitted to the Secretary on or before Feb 1, 2008. This will ensure time to prepare a ballot that will be distributed to each member who attends the March meeting.

Membership dues ($100 + 4 hrs volunteer time documentation; $125 without the documentation) must be paid on or before Friday, March 31^st. After this date, payment of the $50 initiation fee plus the annual dues will be required for membership reinstatement. Renewal for those 10 years or longer members, 65 y/o will remain $75. Current members who are police officers or in active military service will also renew at the $75 rate. Dues can be paid at the monthly meeting; or mailing a check payable to NPCCC and a self addressed, business sized, stamped envelope to, Nick Paulas, 146 Indigo Drive, Dyer Indiana 46311. With your 2008 membership card you will again receive a volunteer hours documentation sheet to use for renewal of your 2009 dues.

During 2009, members will be required to complete 6 hours of volunteer work. It will be the member’s responsibility to obtain documentation of the 6 hours of volunteer time and present the completed form when renewing membership in 2010. Without the 6 hours of volunteer time, membership dues will increase to $135.
There are many ways members can complete their volunteer time to the club. Contribution from the entire membership is key to the future of all club activities. Another way is to participate in our scheduled work parties and highway cleanup effort.  Contact any one of the club officers or check out NPCCC.net for upcoming events for ways in which you would like to help out and fulfill your 4 hours of volunteer work.
Remember, no club project can happen without member participation! NPCCCs highway clean up initiative the first of 3 this year, will happen  this April. So mark your calendars and come out and  show your club and community support by participating in this worthwhile activity. Contact Jeff Loewe at loewej65@verizon.net for date and details.

Remember, the gate preventing entry into the pistol portion of bay #4 (the rifle bay), will remained locked in order to open bay #4 up to 100 yard rifle shooting 7 days a week, except on match days.

No steel targets are allowed in the rifle bay, bay #4 at any time! All rifle or shotgun shooting must be done from 100 yards, no closer! In addition, no rifles of any kind may be shot in bay #3, unless during a scheduled match.  New warning signs have been installed in and around the shooting area. Follow their directions!

The NPCCC safety rules and regulations are posted at the entrance to all the shooting bays.  

Remember, you must sign yourself and your guests in on the new waiver sheets in the red book at the clubhouse before you enter the shooting area! Members sign in the front and their guests sign waivers at the tab towards the back of the book. Members are responsible for their guest's actions, safety and the safety of others around them while on the club property.  Please clean up after yourself at the range!
 Unloadable brass, steel casings, shotgun hulls and used targets must be thrown in the garbage cans available. These items clog and stop the drainage!

Shotgun Only/Birdshot Only--No Buckshot or Slugs in the trap area north of bay #1.

For everyone’s safety, absolutely non-magnum, pistol calibers only, no more than 1400 fps on any steel targets!  Steel targets must be placed for engagement, no closer than 1/3 the distance of the bay from the backstop. This will ensure that missed shots will impact into the back birm and not impact the bay surface and ricochet over the backstop.
The plate racks are for pistol use only; No SHOTGUNS OR RIFLES!
Cardboard and 2 x2s are provided in the white storage containers, just north of the Port-A-John, for all shooters as well as target stands in each bay.
Wooden rifle racks and barricades are NOT target stands; DO NOT staple any cardboard/paper targets to them and use them as such!

No hunting of any kind is allowed on the NPCCC property!  No .50 BMG cal is allowed on the NPCCC property! 

Absolutely none of the targets, stands, steel targets, props, or any other associated materials may be removed from the club property. If you see anyone removing property from the club, notify a club officer as soon as possible.

Stay politically active! Stay in touch with your state and local politicians to voice your opinions on gun related issues. Don’t forget to stay in touch with your elected representatives from NPCCC. Let them know where you stand on the projects and issues of the club.  Promote and support all the shooting sports when ever and where ever. Bring a friend/family member(s) out to the range and introduce her/him/them to the wonderful world of shooting sports. It’s a sport the whole family can enjoy.

NPCCC SHOOTING EVENTS SCHEDULE Shooting on the range may begin at 0900 am / ends ½ hour before sunset, Monday through Sunday.  Scheduled competitions may begin shooting later, so check with the appropriate contact person for that event to make sure of the starting time.

NPCCC SMALL BORE Challenge—Rifle and pistol—1^st Saturday of the month—Apr 4^th, May2^rd, Jun 6^th, Aug 1^st, For more info contact Jeff Loewe at loewej65@hotmail.com  

NPCCC  Trap Shooting..1st Sunday @ month starting at 1200pm,  January thru Dec.(winter months, weather permitting)  Feb 1^st, Mar 1^st,  April ^5th , May 3^rd, June 7^th...  Contact Bill  Munoz at  wrm1126@sbcglobal.net for details.

NPCCC USPSA—1st Sunday of @ month…April thru November---- April 5^th,  May 3^th, June 6^th, July 5^th, Aug 2^nd...  Contact Bill Zeller  for more info @ bill@cherryriver.com

 NPCCC Cowboy Action Shooting— 2^nd Sunday @ month, April thru Nov. April 12^th, May 10^th , June 14^th, July 12^th, Aug 9^th, Sept 13^th, Oct 11th.  Rick Allison at 219-759-3498

 NPCCC Steel Challenge –4^th Sunday of each month  (Please note the change to the 4th Sunday)  April thru December. Jan /Feb/Mar as weather permits, April 26^th, May 24^th, Jun28^th July 26^th, Sept 27^th, Oct 25^th, Nov 22^nd.   Contact Bud Scott @ 572chevy@comcast.net or Bill Kucek @ bkucek@msn.com

 NPCCC  IDPA—3^rd Sunday @ month March thru Dec. Sundays, Feb 15^th, Mar 15^th, April 19^th, May 17^th, Jun 21^st. Contact Marv Boetcher at boetcher@msn.com

 NPCCC IDPA- Carry Gun Match—Sunday May 31^st.  for more info contact Jeff Stack at jLstack1@verizon.net

 NPCCC Revolver Match- Sunday August 30^th  for more info contact Nick Paulas at nickp50@msn.com

 HIGH POWERED MILITARY RIFLE MATCH—Sunday March 30^th contact  Marion Roskowski  219.942.8970

PCCC --Tactical 2 Gun:  shotgun/Pistol - USPSA 3 Gun

Other specialty Rifle / Pistol / Shotgun –check  www.NPCCC.net

MORE SHOOTING.........check out our regional calendar of events at NPCCC.net for scheduled matches  in Indiana, Michigan and Illinois

 COWBOY ACTION---First Saturday of @ month, all year

Warsaw, Indiana; contact Midnight Desperado at

219-893-7214 

COWBOY ACTION---4^th Sunday of @ month, all year--

Michigan City Rifle Club, Indiana; contact Sassie Sue at

219-872-7957 

 IDPA-1^st  Sunday of every month, Mar thru Dec--Bend of the River Conservation Club/Niles, Michigan

Rich Wonacutt at rwonacott@hotmail.com  

IDPA-2^nd Sunday of every month, Mar thru Oct. Michigan City Rifle Club, Indiana; contact Jeremy VanGieson 

 IDPA-4^th Saturday of every month, Mar thru Oct.  New Buffalo Rod and Gun Club, New Buffalo Mich—

 Otis Lawrence at jllawrence@earthlink.net   

STEEL PLATES--Second Sunday of every month  April thru Oct, New Buffalo Rod and Gun Club, New Buffalo Michigan Pat Baird--219.748.4495 

USPSA – 2^nd Sunday of the month, April to October, Oak Park Sportsmen’s Club, Plainfield, Illinois Contact John Serafin at oakparksportsmensclub.org  

USPSA – 3rd Sunday of the month, April to September, Fort Wayne Area Practical Shooters in Fort Wayne IN, more info Lonnie Maggart at www.fwaps.org  

USPSA- 4th Sunday of the month, Jan. thru Oct. (Jan and Feb indoors) - Bend of the River Conservation Club - Niles, Michigan 

ICORE- Revolver match---Wheelgunner’s Revenge at Bend Of The River Conservation Club/Niles Mich. Next match  July, 2008

 High Power Rifle---To be announced for 2008 at Camp Perry, Ohio. contact Frank Meccia, franzuhlan@aol.com Web Sites of Interest…..

npccc.net                               sassnet.com                          uspsa.org

isishootists.com

gunowners.org                     gunsandammomag.com      nra.org

idpa.com                                shooterconnection.com

icore.org                                atf.treas.gov                          tcgc.net

www.gunowners.org    gunsamerica.com   americanrifleman.com

sportsmansguide.com         shootingusa.com shootinggallery.com